My dog Khronos (left) and Sam (right) one of our two houseguests playing in front of open crates.
I left active rescue in 2015, so it’s been awhile since I thought much about the use of crates for dogs, in rescue or otherwise.
But between the release of our latest book from Who Chains You Publishing— I Once Was Lost, But Now I’m Found: Daisy and the Olympic Animal Sanctuary Rescue—and my occasion to use crates this week for two dogs I’m babysitting, I was forced once again to look the issue in the eye and give it a good mulling over.
My dog Khronos has been with us for over a year now, so he’s trained to a doggie door and is a perfect gentleman inside the house, no longer needing or using a crate.
Yet we still have one or two of them, folded up and gathering…